In addition, the reason the US has a "special relationship" with Israel and always defends Israel no matter what is not because the US is entirely run by Jews (although there are a lot of them with a lot of power), but because Israel and the US made a secret deal --- the US convinced Israel not to develop nukes, and in exchange the US would always defend them.

I don't have any security clearance or any special knowledge. This is pure hypothesis. 

 Stoping the proliferation of nuclear weapons is of strategic interest to all countries with active nuclear weapons programs irrespective of whether or not Iran was a threat in the 60s or if Israel had a specific target for it's nukes.

I'm not saying Israel doesn't have the ability to build nukes, of course they do, as does Iran.  I'm saying they voluntarily stopped and took a deal from the US to not continue in exchange for a secret defense agreement.... but they didn't shut down the program, they just froze it, so they could continue if that deal somehow ever fell apart and as leverage to force the US to keep defending them.

But it's just a hypothesis.  Everybody in all political camps seems to think Israel has nuclear weapons, so it is a minority hypothesis.  This last week's intelligence leak gave it a bit more credibility though which is why I mention it now. 

 Yes it happened with Ukraine too.  I hypothesize that a lot of such deals were made with the aim of stopping nuclear proliferation.   The theory could extend to the idea that Russia has a deal with Iran to not build nukes, in exchange for Russia defending Iran (The US couldn't do that with Iran since Israel and Iran are at odds and the US couldn't promise defense to both sides.... well they could in secret like the UK always did I guess). 

 Yes. Either way could be the case as either way puts them in a good position, and the ambiguity makes that position even better. 

 I recently heard Iran is world #1 in ultra high performance concrete.  I guess for their bunkers they need it to defeat bunker buster munitions, and also they get a lot of earthquakes. 

 I don't hate people, I hate crowds.  I'm an introvert and crowds demand constant awareness of the external environment, too taxing.  Just driving through a parking lot puts my nerves on edge worrying about who is going to step in front of me or back out in front of me... and how the fuck am I going to turn my truck a full 90 degrees to park in a tiny parking spot with so little room to turn?  It's impossible.  Better to stay home.

Rabbits are a pest in NZ and often at plague proportions during late Summer.  So are stoats and possums, but we've got their numbers down where I live.  I don't see possums very often anymore (probably because of my dog) and I've never seen a stoat here.  I did see a polecat (wild ferret) once, and my dog saw it too and killed it.  The polecat put up quite the fight, but was no match for the GSD. 

 I haven't seen a dog eating a rabbit in Japan either.  I did see a few dogs though.  Small house-friendly dogs. 

 My wifi SSID is "assholenextdoor" 

 This wont make a difference. Idiots will still accidentally OD on that shit.... and some people intentionally.  Hell, just buy 2 packs! 

 You should install Microsoft Visual C/C++ which includes 'clang-cl'.
You should aslo install cmake

Then you'll have half a chance at least.

It's not easy to entirely avoid 'ring' and 'ring' is plagued with these kinds of architecture build issues. Here is another Windows on ARM bug in ring that is still open that we may trip even if we fix the one you are currently getting: https://github.com/briansmith/ring/issues/2135  Apparently their build system is so complex that nobody can fix it.  Even the author Brian is asking people to please submit PRs to fix it 😆

Some libraries moved away from ring and went to aws-lc-rs (e.g. rustls) and they got so much shit from other problems of making this switch that he had to lock the github issues!  https://github.com/rustls/rustls/issues?q=is%3Aissue++aws-lc+

So there are definitely many upstream issues still. 

 Also I pushed a commit that includes "build.sh" which asks some questions and then figures out the compile settings from your answers. 

 I have viewed my feed in gossip (gossip lets you view a relay's global feed) and it was tailored to me.

One note seemed strangely irrelevant (not very connected to me nor reacted to much).

It appeared to me that as I went down the feed, there were fewer events per time period, and those had to be much more popular (based on reactions).  Which makes sense.

I'd love an English description of the algorithm. 

 Ah, well gossip is using since/until as well as limit in order to load chunks at a time with a known number of events.  It also specifies kinds (that the user has selected and that gossip knows how to display).  But it still worked pretty well.  I'll read the github notes shortly. 

 Good choice. 

 Gossip considers those relays as both write(outbox) and read(inbox) for you.  I don't know what NDK does or what other outbox-model clients do.

I expect to see middleware that handles the outbox model relay fanout issue.... what I am calling a 'client proxy'.  You would have to trust such a service.  And Damus would be a good client to use such a service. 

 I didn't know LMDB has issues on ARM. If you have compile failures, or runtime issues with LMDB data corruption, please file an issue on github so I can try to find the problem    https://github.com/mikedilger/gossip

Also, gossip compiles on windows without needing WSL. You just need a git-bash shell to run the commands from. 

 Yes ok alignment matters.  LMDB data is just a sequence of bytes so it is not doing any alignment, and I presume each LMDB value starts aligned.  I'm using speedy for most of the data, and I see zero issues on the speedy repository about anybody getting alignment errors.  That is why I'd love to see an error message, so I can know this issue is real and then chase it down, rather than trying to fix something that might not be broken. 

 ok i'll join 

 Ah yes. You have to tell it how big the database might eventually become ... a max size... when you create it.   If you don't have that much space it would fail. 

 We use 24GB.  I could make a launch option to set it smaller I suppose. 

 Has something to do with sparse file support I'm guessing. 

 Yeah noise is cool, but this is TLS that should already work in browsers and other HTTPS clients.  If relays had ed25519 keypairs they could to wss:// TLS using them directly without certificates. 

 BTW it was defined in https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7250 (but I think that was TLS 1.2 days), and TLS 1.3 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8446 mentions it. 

 What about the opium trade?  Didn't it collapse when the US pulled out of Afghanistan? 

 You should be able to manually add handlers by naddr or event id though, and I plan to do that too. 

 You can run multiple profiles with firefox.  That has been a thing for I think 20 years or more.  You may have to launch it with a command-line parameter, but you used to be able to have it ask which profile you want as it starts up.  

 Behold the majestic lion in it's natural habitat at the local watering hole 

 What confuses me is the upwards spike in trust around 2018. Nobody that I knew became more trusting during Russiagate. 

 You mean the keto diet foods, or the stuff I listed at the end?   I have IBS-D, so being "stopped up" is a welcome relief.  In fact they seem to cancel and so for me it makes me normal and regular. 

 I'm very familiar with Dr Greger. I have that book and I have read it.  Dr Greger's diet advice is pretty good and his work at nutritionfacts.org is a good reference.

But Dr Greger over-states the case for a pure plant-based diet. He seems to have gotten excited by feedback from his followers, driving him to overstate a number of things. Gil Carvalho (who thinks a lot like I do so I respect his view) has a fact-check on him:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XjmvBFt63k   I think Gil is being overly harsh here, but it is still useful.

The diet-health-vegetarianism connection comes out of Seventh-Day Adventism which got it from Ellen G White (a women hit in the head with a rock so hard as a kid that she started having "visions"), who thought she got it from God, but probably got it from Reverend Sylvester Graham.  All of this happened before 1900 without the benefit of science.  But once people have a belief, it is hard to shake, and since SDAs were some of the first doing medical research into diet, their religious beliefs (including vegetarianism) became (unsuprisingly) the healthiest diet.

Not only is it very clear that a pure plant-based diet is deficient in a lot of things (B12, iron) but a lot of research shows that unprocessed low-saturated-fat meats are at least as healthy as grains, and the cohort of SDAs who add fish to a plant-based diet live longer than those who don't. 

 Calcification of your arteries is a good thing.  It stabilzes an atheroma making it safe.  Without the calcification, atheromas put you at risk of a cardiac event or stroke or pulminary ebolism.

The presence of calcified arteries proves you have had atheromas (generally only atheromas calcify).  Low CAC scores in old people prove they are the kind of person who probably doesn't develop atheromas at all... .and high CAC scores in young people proves they are developing them very rapidly.  However, high CAC scores in old people and low CAC scores in young people don't tell us much.  With CAC you can't see how many risky non-calcified atheromas exist, only proof that there used to be some.

I do think Americans are lead to consume too much Calcium, based on bad science around osteoperosis.  Just get sunshine and exercise and don't worry about the calcium... either way. 

 Trying to avoid calcification of your arteries is like refusing to buy or use band-aids in order to prevent injuries. 

 I'm aware of much you wrote there, but not all of those details.  This is well done. 

 I only disagree with that critique a little bit.

I shouldn't have said most people are good (I'm not even sure what good means) what I should have said is that most people are "mostly harmless" (as opposed to psychopathic power seekers).  Hat tip to the late Douglas Adams.

Most Israelis are not happy with Netanyahu and some 2 million are leaving or in the process of leaving because he has escalated which makes them less safe.  I'm not saying they don't want Arab blood, but they don't want to live in fear of counterattacks... which is why I had to make the next paragraph to explain that.

I don't know who you are referring to when you talk about a "Cyberattack by Space Aliens" that certainly was not me.

I agree that religion, which seems harmless at first, ends up making some people very dangerous either due to radical us-vs-them beliefs (as in this case) or radical "God forgives me so I can rape this choir boy" beliefs, or other similar unhinged things.  I instinctively don't trust religious people very much... I see it as proof of a brain malfunction.
 

 I am going to give my view of free will and quantum decoherence.

FREE WILL: Nah.

I'll start by saying that I don't believe in free will. If you say it is "the ability to make choices independent of deterministic physical laws" then I'd say that you don't have free will.  That means that I believe that every decision you ever have and will make is entirely 100% determined by the universe that came before that decision, focused in onto that outcome.  But keep in mind that it is YOU making the decision.  You were crafted by the universe before.  The universe is making the decision, the 100% fated decision, through you.  Could you have done otherwise without changing anything at all about the universe before the decision? I think not.  Therefore I believe most people will agree that I don't believe in free will.

Some people get tripped out or depressed by imagining that all their decisions are fated and think that their decisions don't matter. This is not correct. Your decisions DO matter. You have a huge number of degrees-of-freedom in determining what your decisions are going to be, and you are making those decisions. At the point of time that you make the decision, you are exactly what you are and can only make the decision one way.  But never forget that it is because of who you are. YOU are making the decision.

DECOHERENCE: disruption

As for quantum decoherence this is a lot more difficult to understand. On the easy side of the problem we have the fact that measurement causes outcomes to change, causes superpositions to decohere into single possibilities.  The double-slit experiment goes from a wave pattern to particle piles as soon as you look closely enough to gain any information about which slit the electron is going through.  This seems very weird but I think what is happening on this scale is that "looking closely" cannot be done without also "disrupting" the system. Any disruption will cause decoherence, it doesn't have to be "looking".

OBSERVATION:

On the hard side of the problem, whether decoherence happens or not seems to be tied into whether the observer is entanged with the system or not, which is to say you may have entangled observers that see superpositions while external observers see exact outcomes.

My explanation of this is wild and might be distrubing so please have alcohol at the ready if you need it.

POSSIBILITY SPACE:

I don't believe there is a physical univerese. It was always weird to me to think that there was Plato's heaven (numbers, math, concepts, probability, etc) and also a physical universe where the math could be used to describe the physics.  Why are things like this?  It is weird.

I think things are actually simpler.  Without a physical universe... if all that exists is math, concept, possibility... than what we think is a physical universe is really just one possibility within the mathematical set of all possibilities.  And so every moment we find ourselves in some point in possibility space.  That space is much larger than space-time.  Instead of a single space-time, there are infinite possible spacetimes.  Every universe that could exist (remember, even in Plato's heaven, possibilities must be self-consistant) does exist in some place in the possibility space.

So that leads to the question of why there seems to be a physical universe, why we seem to be at one point in the possibility space, which swings the question around to consciousness.

CONSCIOUSNESS:

We feel like we are moving through time. But we only exist at a single precise point in time.  Our feelings of past, our memories, exist right now as we recall them.  There may not have even been a past.  The very consistent progression of time as memories that the human animal experiences.  Your consciousness inhabits that possibility point.

Imagine if your consciousness is jumping between different people, different planets, different animals.  You would not be able to tell.  In each instant you would experence only what that animal is experiencing including it's memories at that possibility point.

And so I don't think time exists except as a causal dimension of possiblity space.

GOD:

I like to think of a single God inhabiting all possibilties.  That is our consciousness. In everything, everywhere, all the time, in all possibilities.  You are God inhabiting a human animal at a specific point in possibility space.

I'm an Animist.
 

 Depends on the code not the author. 

 There are three kinds of people:
* Those who say "bombs" (normal people)
* Those who say "munitions" (policy people)
* Those who say "ordinance" (military people) 

 For example, Israel has not won the war in Gaza.  Gaza could choose to lose the war, but barring that, the war continues.  Nobody can choose to win a war, it only happens when the other side chooses to lose. 

 Great prediction! 

 I'm unpredictable 

 Well without blue cheese it is still 90%.  The horseradish is more important. 

 😁 ... and I'm issuing a new crypto token called the Ishitako!  Just send me 1 BTC and I'll send you 1000 Ishitako!  😁

😂 

 Yes yes, you are Satoshi.  Thank you. 

 I have no idea.  They pop into my head and if I think they are funny or interesting enough I type them into nostr, usually fresh without a lot of consideration.

All comedians test their jokes, but I think Norm was willing to test things other comedians would be too afraid to try.  And much of the humor was at how ridiculous and daring he was to say something so ridiculous. 

 Did you do https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1091 or something else? 

 https://i.nostr.build/iXh06FVdzIs0e5Bx.jpg 

 I guess I form an nevent from the event that I don't understand... and I don't ever need to use the other ones. 

 Oh right.  I could do naddr too.

I think npub, nprofile, and note (I would use nevent instead) don't need app handlers so I'll just do nevent if not replaceable and naddr if replaceable. 

 I might try that.

Charcoal and magnesium smells like .... like nothing.  Somehow it kills the bacteria that produce smell. 

 not with this. I have a local tool of poor code quality and manual intervention needed that i do that with to pick default relays for new users to pick from. 

 Huh, yeah, I can't get it to load either. 

 On this page, under the subheading "The Gossip Model", I list all the strategies gossip was using before NIP-65 came about.  It still uses all of that.
https://mikedilger.com/gossip-model/